With Several Natural Disasters Swirling... And Repeal Lunacy Rising (Anew)... We Are Sorely In Need Of Some Good News Here.

I may be scarce here for a while. Just too much going on in "real life" (though this too, is real, in every sense of that word). I do want to offer an uplifting, "real life" story of STEM, on fleek, as I depart. . . .

Do see the below -- and just a bit of our prior reporting, on the STEM topic, generally.

The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

. . . .U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, and author Margot Lee Shetterly are among the dignitaries honoring Katherine Johnson, former NASA employee and central character of the book and movie Hidden Figures, at 1 p.m. Sept. 22 at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

They will join Hampton Mayor Donnie Tuck and Langley Center Director David Bowles in cutting the ribbon to officially open the center’s new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility, a state-of-the-art lab for innovative research and development supporting NASA’s exploration missions. . . .

The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility (CRF) is a $23-million, 37,000-square-foot, energy efficient structure that consolidates five Langley data centers and more than 30 server rooms. The facility will enhance NASA’s efforts in modeling and simulation, big data, and analysis. Much of the work now done by wind tunnels eventually will be performed by computers like those at the CRF. . . .

Until next time 'round, then -- do travel well -- but do travel light, Joe. . .

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